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Did the SAT pay Kamm to create this incredible publicity whirlwind for Winkler’s softcover release? Priceless!

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Naturally not! Good on him, though. There’s no publicity like a public outrage.

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It also has worked out in our chaotic politics here in the States: Donald Trump has proven to be the single most powerful force for organizing resistance to, naturally enough, his own despicable quasi-fascist politics, exhibit A being the heartening backlash from women and their male allies about the reproductive healthcare debacles over abortion rights.

Including memberships, marches, protests online, volunteering, donations, issue campaigns and voting the barstewards out!

Also passing ballot initiatives to include the rights in state constitutions - in our system, a state can guarantee more rights, but not less rights, than the feds.

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I am convinced that doubters should finally study at least a little the formidable figure of John Florio, because he is the only one among the candidates for authorship who perfectly fits the glass shoe of the author of those works. I wrote, in Italian, a book entitled "Who wrote Shakespeare" where I indicate Florio as the ghostwriter. I invite Elisabeth Winkler and the Guardian's critic, Stephanie Merritt, to investigate this.

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Hi - Florio is one of the candidates highlighted on our site. We also hosted a speaker on Florio's candidacy at last year's in person event in London. We are always interested in new research on candidate. https://whowroteshakespeare.substack.com/p/john-florio

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Anyone who would like to understand why so many outstanding actors, writers, scholars, statesmen, and thinkers, including at least five U.S. Supreme Court justices, have expressed doubts about the identity of William Shakespeare should read the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare at https://DoubtAboutWill.org/declaration. The Declaration has over 5,300 signatories, including over 2,000 with advanced degrees, over 900 current or former college/university faculty member, and over 120 notables, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Mark Rylance, and Jeremy Irons.

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Thank you John. There is also a link to the Declaration on our 'About' page.

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Alan Green has made numerous videos about decrypting the works of "Shakespeare" and associated characters (John Dee etc) . Anyone who doesn't realise the extent and obvious validity of the encryptions just doesn't understand encryption at all. The possibility that it is all "by chance" is so blindingly small as to be laughable.

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If you read my book "Debugging Shakespeare", you will discover Edward de Vere, Robert Cecil and many other so-called alternative authors of "Shakespeare" were all merely aliases of the Bard himself and any "cross referencing" by these aliases to his other aliases was a "trick" practiced by the real author.

Ros Barber refused to acknowledge the work that I have done to catalogue/describe the aliases because she mistakenly believed I had used some "computational" style analysis on the works themselves.

Despite informing her that she had jumped to the wrong conclusion, she blanked me completely! I suggest you watch my 50 or so Youtube videos to make your own mind up! My Youtube channel is "therealshakespeare9243" and you should then go to my playlist called "Bard videos" and hit "play all" to see them in their correct sequence - because they build on each other.

I expose quite a large number of the Bard's aliases and identify who he really was, both in the videos and of course in my book in much greater detail including the evidence using active hyperlinks to libraries around the world. There is no excuse to say "Where is the evidence" - there actually IS evidence if you take the time to look - which most historians (and critics alike) have not bothered to do.

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I favour the possibility of some court-persons of Francis Bacon's era reworking plays from the Earl of Oxford's era (20years earlier).

Can I just ask the name and era of your contender?

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I believe the genuine author (who I have identified) was born c1530-1545 and died c1644/5. In other words he was most likely over 100 years old when he eventually died and had many more years to create a significantly larger output than the supposed character "William Shakespeare: (1564-1616) but shrouded in other aliases he created (almost as a matter of course). He was a protoscientist with the "attributes" of Sir Francis Bacon - but he too was an alias in my opinion. Do not think of his "output" as merely plays or poems - think of it instead as a complete transformation of experimental philosophy and thought by a polymath with extraordinary talent.

Watch my videos, then buy my book!

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